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A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN AUGUST 2017 Pablo Escobar: My Father Juan Pablo Escobar The popular series Narcos captures only half the truth. An international bestseller, this riveting, deeply personal memoir by Pablo Escobar's son reveals the full story. Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug kingpin of all time, but these versions have always been told from the outside, never from the intimacy of his own home. More than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally caught up with the king of cocaine, Juan Pablo Escobar travels to the past to reveal an unabridged version of his father—a man capable of committing the most BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / CRIMINALS & OUTLAWS extreme acts of cruelty while simultaneously professing infinite love for his A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin family. | 8/29/2017 9781250145024 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. This is not the story of a child seeking redemption for his father, but a Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W shocking look at the consequences of violence and the overwhelming need for Includes one 16-page black-and-white photograph peace and forgiveness. section Subrights: UK Rights: Ebury PRAISE Translation Rights: Grupo Planeta “While focusing largely on his father, Escobar also includes the grim Other Available Formats: repercussions the cartel boss’s career had on his family. The matter-of-fact prose Hardcover ISBN: 9781250104625 Ebook ISBN: 9781250104632 serves the material well—when one’s daily life is a surreal blur of excess and danger, there’s no need for embellishment.” —Publishers Weekly MARKETING “Escobar writes earnestly … will satisfy curiosity regarding the tawdry reality of Online Publicity childhood within a criminal family.” —Kirkus Reviews CriminalElement.com Promotion Active on Twitter: @sebasmarro (27.6 K followers) Son of the leader of the Medellín cartel, Pablo Escobar, JUAN PABLO ESCOBAR is an Author Website: architect, lecturer, drug policy reform advocate, and writer. He was a subject of the award- www.sebastianmarroquin.co winning documentary Sins of My Father and lives in Argentina. 2 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN AUGUST 2017 Big Blue Wrecking Crew Smashmouth Football, a Little Bit of Crazy, and the '86 Super Bowl Champion New York Giants Jerry Barca Now in paperback, the first in-depth look at the team that rebuilt the NY Giants franchise. A marauding linebacker who changed the game of football, a tough-as-nails quarterback, and a fiery head coach helped the 1986 New York Giants leave an indelible mark on the NFL. Big Blue Wrecking Crew is the no-holds-barred story of the team that created Giant Football, the pound-you-into-submission, quarterback-crushing defense, coupled with a powerful ball control offense SPORTS & RECREATION / that resulted in a 1986 Superbowl Championship—the first in team history. FOOTBALL In a gripping narrative of the season that changed the course of a franchise, St. Martin's Griffin | 8/22/2017 author Jerry Barca takes readers on a wild journey filled with improbable 9781250144911 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. characters. Linebacker Lawrence Taylor partied with the same level of Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W recklessness and violence he put forth when he donned his jersey. Bill Parcells Includes one 16-page black-and-white photograph motivated his team in an unrelenting Jersey Guy way, and quiet defensive insert genius Bill Belichick would go on to greatness. Subrights: UK Rights: RLR Associates Translation Rights: RLR Associates Based on years of research and hundreds of interviews, Barca chronicles the Giants’ rise out of rock bottom to their status as a premiere NFL franchise. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250071538 From behind-the-scenes personnel discussions of general manager George Ebook ISBN: 9781466882676 Young to the meeting rooms with Parcells and defensive coordinator Bill Belichick, Big Blue Wrecking Crew is filled with the riveting exploits of unforgettable players. It is an unfiltered look at how enormous egos came MARKETING together to win a championship, playing hard and partying equally as hard Radio Publicity along the way. Online Publicity Blog Outreach Online Reader Reviews PRAISE Author Twitter: @JBarca Author Website: www.JerryBarca.com "[Barca] pulls no punches, looking into the darker side of the franchise, including players’ issues with cocaine use, and Parcells’ mind games with players. You don’t have to be a Giants fan to be entranced by Barca’s engrossing book." —Associated Press ALSO AVAILABLE Unbeatable: Notre Dame's 1988 Championship "Big Blue Wrecking Crew is the football book that has everything -- drugs, death and the Last Great College Football Season 8/2014 | 9781250048653 and the decisions that lifted a flagship organization back to prominence, behind Trade Paperback | $17.99 / $24.99 Can. guys like LT, Parcells and Simms. It's a literary 30-for-30 and a must-read for any football fan.” —Greg Bishop, Sports Illustrated JERRY BARCA is an author and journalist. His writing has been published in The New York Times, SI.com, ESPN.com, and he is a regular contributor to Forbes. He is the author of Unbeatable and he produced the documentary film Plimpton!, which was a New York Times critic’s pick. Barca is a graduate of Seton Hall Prep with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their four children. 3 MINOTAUR BOOKS AUGUST 2017 Presumption of Guilt A Joe Gunther Novel Archer Mayor A skeleton found encased in concrete at a site of a newly decommissioned nuclear power plant solves a 40 year old missing persons case and opens up a murder investigation. A skeleton is found encased in a concrete slab at a recently decommissioned nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vermont—a discovery which solves a forty year old missing person case. But a body doesn’t end up buried in concrete by accident. Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) are assigned the case because this very cold case that has now been reclassified as murder and they’re the only ones with the resources and ability FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE to investigate. The victim was Hank Mitchell, and Gunther must chase down PROCEDURAL old rumors and speculations to try and find answers for the essential questions Minotaur Books | 8/29/2017 - who benefited from his death and by making his body disappear? Could his 9781250145413 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. death be tied somehow to New York City mafia money that was being Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W laundered through the construction project? Subrights: UK: The Friedrich Agency But what seems the coldest of cold cases roars back to life when one of the Translation: The Friedrich Agency central figures in this mystery is shot to death right after speaking with Other Available Formats: Gunther. And when a young police officer—the son of VBI investigator Hardcover ISBN: 9781250064684 Ebook ISBN: 9781466870918 Lester Spinney—is kidnapped, is that meant to be a warning to the VBI team to drop the case? After all these many years, the truth behind the murder still has to the power MARKETING New in Paperback Mentions to kill, and it’s up to Gunther and his team to protect the innocent, track Author Website: ArcherMayor.com down the living, and finally put the dead to rest. Author Facebook: Facebook.com/ArcherMayor PRAISE “Archer Mayor has quietly been building an impressive body of work about Vermont Bureau of Investigation agent Joe Gunther...evoking a strong sense of place through skillful prose and a sturdy plot.” —Seattle Times “Expertly crafted...Trip-wire tension complements intelligent detective work, fascinating forensics, and an airtight plot; the rich shared history of Mayor’s deftly drawn ensemble cast adds texture and depth.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Another fine entry in a wonderful series—well plotted, as always, and featuring one of the best ensemble casts in the genre.” —Booklist (starred review) ARCHER MAYOR has, over the past 25 years, worked or still works as a firefighter/EMT, a death investigator for the Vermont state medical examiner, and a detective for the Windham County Sheriff's Office. He lives outside Brattleboro, Vermont. Visit the author's web-site at www.archermayor.com. 4 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN SEPTEMBER 2017 Victoria A Novel Daisy Goodwin A novel of the young girl who became a great queen, from the New York Times bestselling author of The American Heiress and creator/writer of the PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria. Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world. Surely she must rely on her mother and her venal advisor, Sir John Conroy, or her uncle, the Duke of FICTION / HISTORICAL St. Martin's Griffin | 9/26/2017 Cumberland, who are all too eager to relieve her of the burdens of power. 9781250045478 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 20 The young queen is no puppet, however. She has very definite ideas about the 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W kind of queen she wants to be, and the first thing is to choose her name.